AN ANALYSIS OF THE BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION RESULTS IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE. A STUDY OF PUBLIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE EFFUTU MUNICIPALITY OF THE CENTRAL REGION

This chapter tells about how this study was conceived. A narration of the Researcher’s experiences about a search for analysed results of B.E.C.E. in integrated science has been given. The Researcher noting that apparently no records of systematically analysed B.E.C.E. results existed at the Municipal office was motivated to research how to find previous B.E.C.E. results in Integrated Science in the Municipality, analyse and document them. Further, the Researcher bemoans the death of statistics at the Municipality and thus decided to use the study to comb the Municipality for data on B.E.C.E. results in Integrated Science. These results would be statistically analysed and a hand book produced for performance over a period of five years, from 2006 to 2010.